Butter-jar



(No Model.)

D. C. CHADWIGK.

BUTTER JAR.

No. 428,040. Patented May 13, 1890.

v l/ i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

DAVID C. CHADVICK, OF FRIENDSHIP, NET YORK.

BUTTER-JAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,040, dated May 13, 1890.

Application tiled February l2, 1890. Serial No. 340,201. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID C. CHADWICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Friendship, in the county of Allegany and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Air-Tight Jar for the Keeping and .lransportation of Butter, abc., of which the following is a specification.

The object ot' my invention is to make an air-tight butter-package of a material that cannot affect the contents by contact; a package that can be used time after time 5 a package that can be nested in crates to be returned to the manufacturer when emptied, ina/:le small so that little butter may be opened at a time; a package that will disclose to the eye the quality of the butter and color without opening; a package guarded from external injury by a suitable defense, all of which will more t' ull y appear by thc drawings and letters of reference marked thereon.

I make my jars of glass, with a metal cover, to hold tive pounds, (more or less;) and, to insure safety from breakage, each jar is placedv upon a square board with a recess turned on its top to tit the bottom of the jar. At each corner of the bottom board I erect posts reaching about three-quarters the height of the jar. In the tops ot these posts I cut a recess or slot to receive a cord or braid, and I take a turn ot the cord around the inner side ot' each post from one to the other, so as to closely inclose the jar at that point and yet have the cord interposed between the posts and the jar. The cover is held in. place by two bails at right angles to each other, hinged to the bottom and sprung over the top, all of which will more fullyappear by reference to the drawings and letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure l is a vertical halt-section of the jar and its fastenings when closed. Fig. 2 is a top View of the jar and its fastenings or protection from breakage, cut olt1 at the point where the cord surrounds it. Fig. 3 is a detached View of one of the corner-posts that sustain the cord.

Similar letters refer to similar parts th roughont the several views.

A is a glass jar recessed centrally in the top of the square bottom board B. The bails C and I are hinged to B by the staples E, and when in place at the top cross each other at right angles. A slight recess or bend in the lower bail holds the upper one centrally in place on the cover D. Interposed between the jar A and cover D is a gasket II, and the bals C and I are made to severely press the parts together when in position on top. At each corner of B, I erect the posts F, to sustain the protecting-cord G, said cord being held at the proper height bythe recess cut on top ot F, as seen in Fig. G is wrapped once around each post when drawn round the jar, so that. it is at every point interposed between the wood and the glass.

The bails at the sides make an elastic defense from side violence.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination ot' the jar A, recessed in bottom I7., the defensive cord G, supported by the posts F, with the bails C and I, claspingV the jar A between the cover D and bottom B in a tirm embrace, substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

DAVID C. CHADIVICK. Iitnesses .IoHN W. BRADLEY, SAM STANTON. 

